Bell Hooks Quotes About Community

• La cultura dominante ha intentado atemorizarnos, hacernos elegir la seguridad en lugar del riesgo, la uniformidad en lugar de la diversidad. Superar ese miedo, descubrir lo que nos une, disfrutar de nuestras diferencias: este es el proceso que nos acerca, que nos da un mundo de valores compartidos, de comunidad significativa.

  Ganchos de campana

  Diferencias, Significativas, Conmovedoras

  bell hooks (2013). "La comunidad docente: A Pedagogy of Hope", p.197, Routledge

• [Una de las formas más vitales de mantenernos es construir comunidades de resistencia, lugares donde sepamos que no estamos solos.

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  Comunidad, Camino, Resistencia

  bell hooks (2014). "Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics", p.227, Routledge.

• All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we don’t challenge ourselves to actually practice.

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  Thinking, Race, Ethnicity

• Construir comunidad requiere una conciencia vigilante del trabajo que debemos hacer continuamente para socavar toda la socialización que nos lleva a comportarnos de formas que perpetúan la dominación.

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  Comunidad, Camino, Conciencia

  bell hooks (2013). "La comunidad docente: A Pedagogy of Hope", p.36, Routledge

• Sobre todo quiero recordarle las recetas de curación y darle mi propio remedio para aliviar su dolor. Le digo: "Coge un bolígrafo. Deja de llorar para escribir esto y empieza a trabajar en ello esta noche". Mi remedio es largo. Pero el último punto de la lista dice: "Cuando te levantas y te encuentras viviendo en un lugar donde no hay nadie a quien quieras y en quien confíes, sin comunidad, es hora de dejar la ciudad - de hacer las maletas e irte (incluso puedes irte esta noche). Y a donde tienes que ir es a cualquier lugar donde haya brazos que puedan sostenerte, que no te dejen ir.

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  Pain, Writing, Healing

• The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community.

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  Cutting, Practice, Space

  "Construir una comunidad de amor: bell hooks y Thich Nhat Hanh". www.lionsroar.com. 24 de marzo de 2017.

• Si queremos una comunidad amada, debemos defender la justicia.

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  Comunidad querida, Justicia, Want

• If we want a beloved community, we must stand for justice, have recognition for difference without attaching difference to privilege.

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  Beloved Community, Differences, Justice

• Like many white liberals, Ken sees the whiteness of his social life as more an accident of circumstance than a choice. He would welcome greater diversity in the neighbourhood. However, he does not consciously do enough work either in his social life or in the larger community to make that diversity possible.

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  White, Diversity, Choices

  bell hooks (2013). “Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope”, p.55, Routledge

• La comunidad amada no se forma erradicando la diferencia, sino afirmándola, reivindicando cada uno de nosotros las identidades y legados culturales que conforman quiénes somos y cómo vivimos en el mundo.

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  Comunidad querida, Diferencias, Identidad

• The challenge these days, is to be somewhere, to belong to some particular place, invest oneself in it, draw strength and courage from it, to dwell in a community.

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  Community, Challenges, These Days

• For most people, what is so painful about reading is that you read something and you don't have anybody to share it with. In part what the book club opens up is that people can read a book and then have someone else to talk about it with. Then they see that a book can lead to the pleasure of conversation, that the solitary act of reading can actually be a part of the path to communion and community.

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  Libro, Lectura, Personas

• Solidarity is not the same as support. To experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite, to build Sisterhood. Support can be occasional. It can be given and just as easily withdrawn. Solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment.

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  Commitment, Sisterhood, Goal

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center”, p.67, Routledge

• Loving friendships provide us with a space to experience the joy of community in a relationship where we learn to process all our issues, to cope with differences and conflict while staying connected.

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  Relationship, Differences, Issues

• It is no accident that this homeplace, as fragile and as transitional as it may be, a makeshift shed, a small bit of earth where one rests, is always subject to violation and destruction. For when a people no longer have the space to construct homeplace, we cannot build a meaningful community of resistance.

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  Meaningful, Women, Home

  bell hooks (2014). “Yearning: Race, Gender, and Cultural Politics”, p.61, Routledge

• Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact with a wider world.

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  Mean, Community, Black

• One of the major differences I see in the political climate today is that there is less collective support for coming to critical consciousness – in communities, in institutions, among friends.

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  Differences, Support, Community

• I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

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  Leadership, Wisdom, Tired

• ... feminist solidarity rooted in a commitment to progressive politics must include a space for rigorous critique, for dissent, orwe are doomed to reproduce in progressive communities the very forms of domination we seek to oppose.

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  Commitment, Space, Feminist

  bell hooks (2012). “Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations”, p.78, Routledge

• I think the invitation offered the non-black reader is to join us in this expression of our familiarity and via that joining, come to understand that when black people come together to celebrate and rejoice in black critical thinking, we do so not to exclude or to separate, but to participate more fully in world community. However, we must first be able to dialogue with one another, to give one another subject-to-subject recognition that is an act of resistance that is part of the decolonizing, anti-racist process.

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  Thinking, Expression, Giving

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